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Article: NATIONAL: Fish aged 383 million years is our link to sea.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- April 6, 2006
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A 383-million-year-old fossil has given scientists an insight into a major evolutionary change: when fish first transformed fins into limbs.
It took six years of searches in the icy wilderness of the Canadian Arctic before the team unearthed the remains of the new species - an alligator-like fish with leg-like fins.
After they found the rock-covered ancient fish, now named ...